{"id":419,"date":"2003-12-05T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2003\/12\/updates\/"},"modified":"2003-12-05T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-05T16:26:00","slug":"updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2003\/12\/updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a lot of soul-searching, I  bought the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/beatzo\/38628.html\">three Bone trade paperbacks<\/a> that had been available for quite sometime in MR book stall. And also a book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0679755497\/qid=1070620801\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-0378637-3941503?v=glance&#038;s=books\">Movie-made America<\/a> ( subtitled &#8220;A Cultural History of American Movies&#8221;) which the guy suggested I try out and that I can pay him later, if I liked it.<\/p>\n<p>While browsing through the newspaper at night, I came across this stunning bit of information &#8211; The <i>Beatles Anthology<\/i>, currently priced at 2045 Rupees, is selling for 1015 at a book exhibition in YMCA Secunderabad. Half the price. Which set my heart aflutter, because that meant more money being spent this month, and that wasn&#8217;t really what I wanted, inspite of my lust for the tome.<\/p>\n<p>So this fine morning, Chandru and I went to YMCA. And the guy there tells me that all copies of <i>The Beatles Anthology<\/i> have been sold out, and no new copies were forthcoming. I didn&#8217;t know whether to sob or be relieved, so I just came back and tried to work for sometime.<\/p>\n<p>The guard just came in and gave me a package, which, as I had guessed correctly, were the game-cds from Sam. Which kind of Makes Up for it All.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, Bone was just too good. Jeff Smith, you rule!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lot of soul-searching, I bought the three Bone trade paperbacks that had been available for quite sometime in MR book stall. And also a book called Movie-made America ( subtitled &#8220;A Cultural History of American Movies&#8221;) which the guy suggested I try out and that I can pay him later, if I liked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}